Oxfam India just not focuses on women but focuses on communities to create favorable environment for Empowered Women. You can help us to train a woman as ASHA (Accredited Social Health Activist) or a Woman Community Health Worker and give hope of receiving basic medical facilities to the deprived communities in the still untouched areas of India! An ASHA worker in Maharastra proudly says, "Before this nobody knew me in my village now everybody knows me as ASHA".

Oxfam India works on education, health, rights of women as workers in the informal sectors, savings and credit with a focus on the informal sectors and micro-enterprises. It also focuses on women's participation in Panchayati Raj Institutions, violence against women and working with the legal system to support women to live a life with Dignity.

You can consider giving a new life to an Empowered Woman!

Over the past years, Oxfam is working on several crises caused by frequent disasters, deteriorating natural resources, rising population densities and increasingly uncertain and unpredictable climatic conditions.

Oxfam India's risk reduction and disaster preparedness programming works at many levels. It saves lives, reduces vulnerability, enhances the capacity of partner organisations to respond to crises, strengthens the capacity of the rural poor to deal with disasters, and promotes a broad range of livelihood security in disaster prone areas.

Donors like you make it possible for Oxfam India to reach 2000 affected families in Leh after flash flood in August 2010. Oxfam India distributed health and hygiene kits to over 2000 families to keep them safe from outbreak of epidemics. You can help a family when they need your support the most!

Indian government spends less than 3% of GDP on education, much less compared to many developing countries. Low levels of public investment have led to huge drop-out rates among children. The drop-out rate is up to 40% at the primary level and 52% at elementary level despite the official version of more than 90% enrolments. Of course the most vulnerable communities like dalits, tribals and girls are the worst affected in this scenario. There is a huge infrastructure issue and according to an Oxfam reports, half of India's schools have a leaking roof or no water supply, 35% have no blackboard or furniture and close to 90% have no functioning toilets.

Supporters like you make it possible for Oxfam India to run quality education centres in the government primary schools in the states of Delhi, Maharashtra and Rajasthan. These centres give special attention to the drop-out children and bring them back into the main stream education system. Your yearly commitment will help us take this initiative to more children and also ensure support for a child throughout the session.

India’s economy is largely dependent on Agriculture. However, in the recent years agriculture has lost its viability for the rural Indian families due to various national and global factors. The increased incidence of suicides amongst farmers in India is assuming alarming proportion. Oxfam India helps the small-holders and farm workers to use alternate farming to secure the income for the family.

Oxfam India aspires to make agriculture work for the benefit of poor farmers and laborers. It works at local, national and international levels with communities, governments and the private sector to increase the levels of food security and sustainable income for small holders and farm workers. It also strives to increase the power of small and marginal producers, especially women and build capacities of institutions that can engage in and regulate markets. The idea is to enable poor to get a fair share of the wealth and opportunities generated, with a strong focus on International Financial Institutions, governments and agribusiness. Your support can help us to facilitate a poor family to secure their annual income.

Children are considered to be the future of nation. The meager investment of the Indian government on education necessitates more investment on quality education of underprivileged children from other sources. It will not be an over-statement to say that ensuring quality education of 10 children will ensure better future for 10 families. Despite more than 90% enrolments more than 52% of the children drop out by elementary levels. Ensuring quality of education will curb the severity of this problem. The weaker section of the nation remains in the dark forever due to the inadequate facilities.

Your support will enable Oxfam India to provide quality education to more children from the poor communities for a better and dignified future!

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